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Dhaniya Sutta

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Title: Dhaniya Sutta: Dhaniya the Cattleman

Summary: url=index.html#snp.1.02.than A poetic dialogue contrasting the wealth and security of lay life with the wealth and security of a person who has lived the renunciate life to its culmination. If you have trouble relating to someone like Dhaniya who measures his wealth in cattle, then.

Notes

The first line in the Buddha's verse plays on words in the first line of Dhaniya's. “Free from anger” (akkodhano) plays on “rice is cooked” (pakkodano); and “stubbornness” (khilo) plays on “milk” (khiro).

“Open” means having a mind not covered or concealed by craving, defilement, or ignorance. This image is also used in Ud 5.5 and Sn 4.4. “My fire out” refers to the fires of passion, aversion, & delusion; birth, aging, & death; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. See SN 35.28; Iti 93; and The Mind Like Fire Unbound.

As this verse doesn't seem to be a direct response to the preceding one, the Commentary suggests that we are missing part of the conversation here. An alternative possibility is that the Buddha is engaging in word play — the word “crossed over” (tinna) being a pun on Dhaniya's reference to grass (tina).

According to the Commentary, Mara suddenly comes on the scene to try — unsuccessfully — to prevent Dhaniya and his wife from going forth. His verses here, together with the Buddha's response, are also found at SN 4.8.

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